The annual Louder Than a Bomb spoken-word poetry competition is a mix of both virtual and in-person this year By Constance Jones • Published April 16, 2021 • Updated on April 16, 2021 at 7:50 am ...

“It is English, I promise,” English Ph.D. student Jon Quick joked before beginning to recite at Stanford’s Poetry Out Loud competition Tuesday evening. Then, for the next four minutes, an ...

Part memoir, part homage, part performance history, “Spoken Word” is divided into three parts that show the evolution of the performance poetry scene from the 1960s to the 2010s.

One Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts (LSWA) poetry club and Creative Writing class later, I am still unable to really discern how “good” a poet or poetry is. I can appreciate clever wordplay ...

Prishita Tahilramani's fascination with storytelling, sparked by her grandfather's Partition tales, led her to Spoken Word Poetry and Kommune India. This movement, blending poetry, theatre, and ...

Celebrated poet Andrea Gibson has died at the age of 49 after a nearly four-year-long battle with terminal ovarian cancer, ...

As told in their famous spoken poetry piece, “An Origin Story,” Sarah and Phil crossed paths this way: Sarah: It started with a sweater. Phil: I was looking fly.

Spoken word poetry is not merely an art form but a communion of soul, experience and understanding. Spend one night tucked in the back of House of Hathor on Columbia’s North Main Street and you ...

Denver's growing poetry and spoken word scene boasts enough verbose venues to, at the very least, fill the month. Here are some not-to-miss events and poets to catch for Poetry Month.